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About William Camacaro

William Camacaro, originally from Venezuela, is co-founder of the Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of New York and is an artist, radio host, and activist in New York City.
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    Washington’s escalating war on Venezuela: Narco-myths and imperial designs

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on August 12, 2025 by William Camacaro (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  |

    Since the election of Hugo Chávez in 1998 Washington has waged a relentless war against the Bolivarian revolution.

  • Ecuador’s Andres Arauz. Photo Credit: Andres Arauz/Twitter

    Lawfare threatens to derail the presidential election in Ecuador

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on February 18, 2021 (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    On February 7, the progressive presidential candidate for the Union of Hope Alliance (UNES) party, Andrés Arauz, won first place in Ecuador’s presidential election; this is uncontested.

  • MAY DAY 2018 in Caracas, Venezuela

    Urgent call to celebrate May Day in solidarity with Venezuela

    William Camacaro

    Come see the real “threat” posed by Venezuela—as living proof that another world indeed is possible.

  • Hugo Chavez’s deputy wins Venezuelan presidential elections | The London Evening Post WO

    Maduro is re-elected in a show of popular resistance

    William Camacaro and Frederick B. Mills

    The May 20, 2018 elections in Venezuela were a victory for the popular sectors and a defeat for the U.S. backed opposition, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD).

  • Venezuela flag

    People celebrate Constituent Assembly in Caracas

    Farooque Chowdhury and Rosana Silva and William Camacaro

    The political struggle of the people in Venezuela is now passing a crucial phase. Expressing solidarity with the Venezuelan people is a task in this hour of their struggle.

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • Graeber’s Utopia of Refusal
    William Camacaro

    Will Beaman joins Billy Saas & Scott Ferguson to discuss the enduring influence of David Graeber’s debt-centered work in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of New York City. Will and Scott unpack their jointly authored essay, “The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination,” which is the latest […]

  • Zack Polanski’s Bold Politics Requires an Even Bolder Economic Vision: The Case for Democratic Public Finance
    William Camacaro

    The Green Party of England and Wales is attracting new members in unprecedented numbers and achieving polling percentages that would have seemed impossible a year ago. However, tensions are building behind the scenes over the party’s economic programme. On December 12, 2025, just over 3 months since Zack Polanski’s election as party leader – the […]

  • Radical Finance for America’s Schools w/ David I. Backer
    William Camacaro

    We are joined by David I. Backer, associate professor of education policy at Seton Hall University, to discuss his new book: As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools (The New Press, 2025). The right-wing attack on education has cut deep. In response, millions of Americans have rallied to defend their cherished public schools. […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Nikolai Gogol’s Department of Government Efficiency
    Andy Merrifield A 1926 Soviet illustration of a production of Gogol's play The Government Inspector, showing audience members in the foreground, and actors on stage in the background.

    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

Lost & Found

  • Dividends Are Not Royalties: The SAT and Surplus Value
    Michael Parenti A young man at a desk takes the SAT.

    Michael Parenti, the Marxist author and scholar, died on January 24, 2026 at the age of ninety-two. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 45, no. 5 (October 1993). It has been frequently noted that IQ examinations, while professing to measure innate intelligence, are riddled with racial, gender, and class biases. Thus a low-income, inner-city youth, […]

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